El Problema de l'escola rural durant la Segona República

Abstract

Lack of identity is the most characteristic trait of our rural schools. The rural school emerged as an imitation of the town or city school, and neither politicians nor pedagogues ever addressed its singularity, and have woven a history of oblivion, marginalisation and poverty around it. However, the advent of the Second Republic heralded a new stage, when it was afforded a certain degree of attention, as its development was regarded as a keystone in the construction of the democratic Republic. In this article, and following an overview of its material, organisational and pedagogical aspects, we go on to analyse the problems that affects these selfsame aspects throughout the Republic in order to demonstrate to what extent it was or was not a preferential target in the theory and practice of the Republic's educational policy. Moreover, we analyse the role of the rural teaching profession, a part of which became, through the formation of republican citizens, a dynamising factor of the school and society.